Wheel-fender.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

J. ORTNER.

WHEEL FENDER.

APPLIOATION FILED Nov.1, 1903.

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v Affari/ey@ PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

J. ORTNER.

WHEEL FENDER.

APPLIOATION FILED Nov. 7, 1903.

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NITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

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JOHANN ORTNER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO HERMANN H. RIPPE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WHEEL-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,195, dated. August 2, 1904.

Application filed November 7, 1903. Serial No. 180,197. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHANN ORTNER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residingl at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful .Improvements in iheel-Fenders, of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to wheelfenders of that class in which the person or object struck is grasped by a spring-acting arm and carried along with the car. Its objects are to provide an improved device of this kind having' novel means for tripping' and releasing' the arms which embrace the person or object struck.

A further object is to improve means for holding' the fender in such manner that it may be readily removed and transferred from one end of the car tothe other.

A further object is to provide an improved fender of the scoop type which is located below the arms referred to and which acts in conjunction therewith to prevent injury to a person hit by the c ar.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig'ure 1 is a side elevation of a car provided with my improvements. Fig'. 2 is a top plan view with the arms opened. Fig'. 3 is a similar view of the arms closed, and Fig. is a sectional view.

The scoop or lower fender will first be described. It consists of curved side Aarms 6, which are pivotally supported at 7 at the front of the car and have front and rear bars 8 and 9, between which a netting' l0 is placed. The rear bar 9 has a rcarwardly-extending arm l l, preferably at the middle of the fender,whieh is pivotally connected toa lever l2, which is fulcrumed at 13 to a bracket 14:, depending' from the bottom of the car. At the lower end of the lever is an adjustable screw-stop l5, which is arranged to strike at the base of the arm 11 and prevent further drop of the lever.

At 16 is a weight hung tothe lever and actingl to drop the same. Normally the weight on the lever depresses the latter, and owing' to the rearward extension of the arm 11 behind the pivots 'T the action is to lift the front end of the fender or lift the same from the ground.

Then the fender strikes an object,

car to the position of the arm on that side it turns backward on its pivots until the front bar strikes the ground, thereby eifectually preventing any person from slipping' under the fender. The regulation of the screw-stop l5 fixes the distance the fender is normally lifted from the ground.

The arm or embracing' fender will now be described. It consists of a housinglT, to the opposite front corners of which are pivoted by bolts 1S the arms 19. These arms swing horizontally and tend to close by reason of a spring' 20, coiled around the pivots thereof. The arms are properly padded to prevent injury to a person struck and have at the outer ends rings 2l, through which extend the tripping wire or rope 22. This wire is made of two sections, each of which is fastened to an eye 23 on the front of the car. One section has at the free end a button 24 and is of suflicient length te reach from the frame of the 7o when opened, so as to bring the button just inside the arm, as shown in Fig. 2. The other section has a clip Q5 of simple construction, consisting of two members which are adapted to grip between them the button and which are held when so gripped by a sliding' ring Q6. This section of the wire is of a length suflicient to reach from the button through the arm on the other side. The housing' 1T consists of a rather heavy metal plate having upper and lower flanges 17, and these flanges have holes therein, as at 1T, to receive the ends 2T of the coiled-spring' support or bracket 28, which is fastened to the front end of the car. One of these brackets is provided at each end of the car, and the housing and arms can be lifted off and changed to either end` T he housing' is properly padded in front, and when it receives the impact of a person or object struck the spring 2S cushions the shock.

In operation the trip wire is threaded through the rings on the ends of the arms, and the latter are forced apart as far as permitted by the stops Q2 thereon. The button Qa is then clamped in the clip 25 with sufficient force to counteract the strength of the spring 20. The wire is thus stretched tig'ht between and in front of the arms, and the latter are prevented from closing. I/Vhen a person is struck, he falls against the wire 22 with force suilcient to snap the clip 25 from the button. The holding-wire being thus parted, the restraint on the arms is removed, and they ly together under the pressure of the spring and embrace and hold the person. In combination with this effect the lower fender, first described, acts to pick up the feet of the person and prevent him from falling down from the arms and under the car.

What I claim as new, and desire lto secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A fender pivoted to the frame of the car and having an arm extending behind the pivot, and a weighted lever fulcrumed at its rear end on the car and connected to the arm, and acting to lower the arm and lift the front end of tween and in front of the arms, and having a connection separable under impact.

3. The combination with a housing, and embracing-arms pivoted thereto, of a yielding bracket supporting the housing, on the car.

4. The combination with a car having a yielding' bracket thereon, of a removable housing-on the bracket, and spring-actuated arms pivotallv supported on the housing.

5. The combination with the spring-actuated arms tending to close, of a connection between the arms, and to the car, retaining the arms open, said connection being breakable under impact, to release the arms.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHANN ORTNER.

I/Vitnesses:

HERMANN H. RIPPE, JOHN A. BOMMHARDT. 

